About Howard C. Berg
Lived 1934 – 2021 (aged 87). Howard C. Berg was an American physicist, biologist, university teacher and biophysicist.
Awards With Edward Purcell, Berg received the Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics from the American Physical Society in 1984 for work on the physical limits of bacterial chemoreception. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990 ("for the elucidation of complex biological phenomena, particularly chemotaxis and bacterial locomotion, through simple but penetrating physical theories and brilliant experiments").
Berg was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Who was Howard C. Berg?
American scientist (1934–2021)
When was Howard C. Berg born?
Howard C. Berg was born on 7 March 1934 in Iowa City.
When did Howard C. Berg die?
Howard C. Berg died on 30 December 2021.
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Howard C. Berg was a physicist, biologist, university teacher and biophysicist.
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Howard C. Berg was American.
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